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I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international
consultants. About living in Italy, the Veneto area near Venice; in Indonesia,
central Java. Why we love the southeast of the United States and moved back from
Italy. Our love for gardening, the botanical way. Sharing with you our manifold
treasures from exotic places and even offering several in my Mariette's Back to
Basics LLC Boutique, for others to enjoy. As well as high end silver items from
Giovanni Raspini, Italy |
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I
also do classes and consulting... too much to list here! Check out my google.com/+MarietteVandenMunckhofVedderABOUT page, where you see my other LINKS and email address; you just scroll down.Thanks!

Love to
bring back some romance and quality to the daily life of others...

{Prednisone - My Hair Loss & Mason Pearson Brushes}

Also on my FB Fan Page, Bea did react. She would love to see me once again wearing the Stacked Bob Hairstyle as I have shown in a previous post.

For your memory I will use the photo here below:

Bea even did remember my yellow sweater... This was in April of 1992.

How I myself would LOVE to wear this Stacked Bob Hairstyle again.

The end of 1988... Thick hair!

Would love to still have full hair like that...

Very full hair...

This was me while working and living in Indonesia in the 90s - healthy and happy hair!

My natural curls are still there but my hair is no longer that thick and healthy because of the Prednisone that I have taken for almost two years.

My favorite hair dresser, Peet Kleeven from Happy Hair in my hometown Horst, The Netherlands told me in September 2011 that the very brittle and dry condition + hair loss when shampooing my hair, or brushing it, was a side effect of Prednisone... SCARY!

During winter time especially it gets so dry, that's also a reason that I had it cut off this week.

But I did indulge in the world's best hair brush... purchased at Neiman Marcus, see link below post.

In August of last year I did invest in these two Mason Pearson brushes; one for travel or in my purse and one for at home.

The cleaning brush (left) is included with the purchase of each brush, except for the pocket size that I got for traveling.

HOW I also WISH to have bought them sooner...

Since I brush with those, my hair loss was and is a lot less!

Hope it will work as well for step-daughter Liz whom we gifted with exactly the same in the spring of 2014. It was very hard to obtain one as Neiman Marcus, neither Nordstrom had ANY. So I had to order mine from the UK and had it mailed to The Netherlands.

Now, 1-½ year later this same brush has gone up to $ 205.00...

This might be a valuable tip for all those women that are going through medical treatment with Prednisone, or any other drug causing hair loss. See listing in link below.

I can only highly recommend this to anyone; regardless the steep price you pay for them.

But compared to my healthcare bills it is nothing!

Also in England they do make similar Kent brushes, for men. See link below.

Again, I hope this will help somebody else with the same condition!

If any of you has had a similar experience, I would love to hear from you.

Some people manage to keep beautiful hair all their lives, but as I've gotten older, mine has certainly changed and is not as thick as it used to be. Taking any kind of medication will have side affects but I imagine that's not so important as your health. Wishing you all the best, Tammy